CRAZY fscking day

last night i got quite a bit of work done, and eventually crashed around 12-1am.

woke up well, for a change, and got to the base. the morning was chilled, the afternoon wasn't. :/

my commander gave me a half hour lecture because we've had a problem (non-critical) in our systems for a while now, and we haven't managed to solve it. so i was politely informed that my vacation has been cancelled, and i couldn't leave the base until the problem was solved.
okay, so he wasn't so polite about it. he was a right fugging prick.

considering the effort we've already put into it, it looked as though i'd be stuck on the base the whole bloody weekend.

i called the dog to come and help me - he was already on his way up north for his vac. that felt really shitty. i then started a really motivated attack on the problem, which involved some manoeuvering around the base. ended up in some office on the far side, eventually accumulating five people from five different sections to stay late and deal with this shit that pretty much had nothing to do with them (except that, it turned out much later, one of these nice guys was the original cause). we worked long and hard, everyone feeling my pressure, doing rediculously silly things on a live production server that needs to be PERFECT for tomorrow (the throughput tomorrow, specifically, is incredibly high and VERY critical). that last detail we only found out in the early evening.

so no breaks, and a lot of team effort, but by 11.40 we were OUT of there! everyone was most pleased. funny thing - in order to perform the final test to know we'd succeeded, we had to get a picture of one of the guys in the mongoose's section. none of us have EVER been so pleased to see his face - we were seriously celebrating. on our way out, we ran into him while he was guarding, and each gave him a huge hug. he was quite confused. he'll be helping us translate the report we'll be filing tomorrow ^_^

unfortunately, because tomorrow's such a heavy day, i've had to cancel my inkjob, and putting it off even for a week sucks ASS. and this is after i cancelled an appointment with a physiotherapist (which took long fscking enough to organize) because i would have needed time to recuperate.

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!

the dog and i went to this awesome restaurant, zinc, again, and met up with his sister there. i'd forgotten how good (and cheap) the food is, the calamari i ordered was actually melting in my mouth. and everything tasted SOOOO good. and the music was funky as hell.

afterwards we played an hour or so of pool, which was quite fun, and i just got a cab home. i'm not doing ANY work or emailing tonight, 'cause i gotta be up in less than three hours to go back to the base...